Parth Sachin Patil


2022

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L3Cube-MahaNER: A Marathi Named Entity Recognition Dataset and BERT models
Onkar Litake | Maithili Ravindra Sabane | Parth Sachin Patil | Aparna Abhijeet Ranade | Raviraj Joshi
Proceedings of the WILDRE-6 Workshop within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a basic NLP task and finds major applications in conversational and search systems. It helps us identify key entities in a sentence used for the downstream application. NER or similar slot filling systems for popular languages have been heavily used in commercial applications. In this work, we focus on Marathi, an Indian language, spoken prominently by the people of Maharashtra state. Marathi is a low resource language and still lacks useful NER resources. We present L3Cube-MahaNER, the first major gold standard named entity recognition dataset in Marathi. We also describe the manual annotation guidelines followed during the process. In the end, we benchmark the dataset on different CNN, LSTM, and Transformer based models like mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, IndicBERT, MahaBERT, etc. The MahaBERT provides the best performance among all the models. The data and models are available at https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP .